Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part I written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing’s early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1857 1888 written by Pierre Coustillas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part III written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas’s prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author’s life and his literary afterlife.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1897 1903 written by Pierre Coustillas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1888 1897 written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing's greatest authorial triumphs.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing's early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part II written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing’s greatest authorial triumphs. His most critically acclaimed works, The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893) date from this time.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1897 1903 written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part III covers the turbulent years of the author's life and his literary afterlife.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1857 1888 written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels, over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work.--From publisher website.
Download or read book The Heroic Life of George Gissing written by Pierre Coustillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas's prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author's life and his literary afterlife.
Download or read book George Gissing and the Place of Realism written by Rebecca Hutcheon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
Download or read book The Essential George Gissing Collection written by George R. Gissing and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 9999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by George Gissing: Born in Exile By the Ionian Sea The Crown of Life Demos The Emancipated Eve's Ransom The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories In the Year of Jubilee A Life's Morning The Nether World New Grub Street The Odd Women Our Friend the Charlatan The Paying Guest The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft The Town Traveller Veranilda The Whirlpool
Download or read book George Gissing The Crown of Life written by George R. Gissing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero. In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876. On release he decided to start over. In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels. Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell. His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static. Something had to change. And it did. By 1884 The Unclassed was published. Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist. In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated. Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of 250. Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience. Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.
Download or read book The Novels of George Gissing Volume One Complete and Unabridged Including the Nether World New Grub Street and Born in Exile written by George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains three novels: Nether World - Gissing writes superbly, the effects of poverty and social oppression, are presented from first-hand knowledge. This novel presents the gruelling hardships of Victorian London's working poor which test their character. The unrelenting struggle to obtain enough food and coal for themselves and their children wears down even the greatest of heroes because they have no hope for a better life. Whilst the subject matter is depressing, Gissing cares deeply for his characters and the novel is both honest and gripping. New Grub Street - Another involving with great characters. The storyline is about writers trying to stave off poverty in London and the difficulties of writing when you don't know where your next meal is coming from. There are contrast between naturalist authors and commercial writers and between the expectations of the readers - old and young, men and women. The novel feels very modern with magazines deliberately dumbing down to attract readers because the attention span of the masses lasts no more than two paragraphs. A must read for aspiring authors! Born in Exile - Godwin Peak is highly intelligent, but poor. After leaving school he travels to another part of England to represent himself as interested in becoming part of the clergy. His real aim is to make a good marriage which also means to gain an estate through his marriage and to rise in society. What Peak realizes is that, try as he does, he cannot escape his place in society. Gissing presents an England conscious of class and propriety and the inability of the people, whether or not well born, to conceive of lives lived outside the confines of tradition.
Download or read book George Gissing written by Frank Swinnerton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Gissing written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of Internet resources about the English novelist George Robert Gissing (1857-1903), compiled by Peter Morton. Includes a brief biographical sketch of Gissing, online texts of some of his novels, and criticism of Gissing's works.
